Nederlandse versie hier. In the third cloth I wove for my Weaving Glitches research, I wanted to explore even further how to weave particular patterns and structures on sixteen shafts. The construction of the warp consists of five lanes, each of which is a kind of mixture of the network and echo weaving technique. Actually,
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A number of factors glitched when I was composed in my mother’s womb. I think my love of glitches arose from my struggles in society when I did not yet know for myself that my identity was so diverse and interesting. When I look in the mirror now I see mostly my femininity, but also
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Nederlandse versie hier. Obsessed with the little patterns I found in cloth one, I decided to devote the second cloth to that. But then on sixteen shafts, because my new loom was in. What fascinated me about the patterns was, on the one hand, how some were almost pixel-like, as can occur with graphic glitches.
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A number of factors glitched when I was composed in my mother’s womb. I think my love of glitches arose from my struggles in society when I did not yet know for myself that my identity was so diverse and interesting. When I look in the mirror now I see mostly my femininity, but also
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Nederlandse versie hier. In the first cloth for my Weaving Glitches research, I tried to almost literally implement graphic computer glitches into a weave. I used black lines in the warp, which sometimes reoccur in the wefts. Furthermore, I used diagonal arrangements in the warp in different variations, and something based on the echo weaving
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Ocular Aurora is an experiment in creating the zigzag patterns I sometimes see when I suffer from ocular aura or visual migraines. But I was also inspired by the pattern on a dress that reminded me of that phenomenon. While weaving one night I went out to experience aurora borealis or northern lights, which is
Weave of cottonline bouclé and cotton, size 18×21 cm, 2024 Segnali Interstellari is my contribution to A Sign In Space, a community driven project by the artist Daniela De Paulis working together among other with Seti and ESA.
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Nederlandse versie hier. While looking for interesting structures to weave, I came across Eva Stossel’s moiré experiment. She was building on experiments and work by Verda Elliott to obtain the moiré effect in weaves. I was immediately fascinated. Only I did have a problem, the technique explained there is meant for a 16 shaft loom
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Using the padlock from which I received a photograph of Le Jardin Victor as a starting point, I wove a fairy tale and a weave that together report on my discovery a transgender woman and my transition.Nederlandse versie hier. It never really seemed special to her, the antique padlock. That’s sometimes how it is with
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Weave of cottonline and cotton, size 18×24 cm, 2024
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Weave of cottonline and cotton, size 18×24 cm, 2024
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Aurora’s Dress is a collaborative project with costume designer Hanne Pierrot. The dress, which is also an analog electronic musical instrument, was the basis for the performance Aurora Ontwaakt in which Aurora awoke in her capsule and discovered a brand new world. Aurora Ontwaakt symbolizes the journey I made between the age of four when
Weblog and book in which I recorded the changes in my face caused by the first year of hormoon therapy. Every day I wore a different dress and posted a selfie. In blog entries that later also came in the book, I made a record of my emotional journey that year. Book with contributions by
Weave of cottonline and cotton, size 18×24 cm, 2024
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